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Hospicio De San Jose Vs. Findlay Millar Timber Co. 050 Phil 227

In the matter of the involuntary insolvency of Romulo Machetti. EL HOSPICIO DE SAN JOSE, claimant-appellee, vs. FINDLAY MILLAR TIMBER CO., ANG LENG, LEE QUI CHICAN, and ESTEBAN PALO MARIA, objector-appellants.

G.R. No. 26482 | 1927-03-31

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila in the matter of involuntary insolvency of Romulo Machetti, allowing the claim of El Hospicio de San Jose against the insolvent in the amount of P124,342.37, with lawful interest from November 18, 1922, and with costs. In the court below the claim was opposed by Findlay Millar Timber Co. and other Hospicio de San Jose vs. Findlay Millar Timber Co. creditors of the insolvent, and by them the appeal is prosecuted in this court.

On July 17, 1916, the insolvent Romulo Machetti, then a building contractor, entered into a contract...